Re: [Fedora-xen] Upgrade FC5 Xen -> FC6

From: Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak rogers com>

To: fedora-xen redhat com

Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] Upgrade FC5 Xen -> FC6

Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:47:09 -0500

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 16:03 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The solution is fairly simple though - the latest FC5 errata also provides a
> 'kernel-xen' RPM which is PAE enabled. So before upgrading your host, just
> make sure you have done 'yum install kernel-xen' in each of your guests.
> This will let your FC5 guests contonue working on an FC6 host - you can then
> upgrade your guests to FC6 at will.
I don't understand this. Why does kernel-xen have to be installed in
the guest? Doesn't the guest just use the xen kernel running in dom0?
I'm obviously missing something here.
Regards,
Ranbir
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Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
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